The Face Magazine Vol 2 No 2 November 1988

WHO’S SCOOTING WHO?   14

Style has no meaning in Europe's city of culture, where the

scooter clubs take their influences from all over to bring the

smell of burning rubber to Glasgow via Elm Street...

THE THOUGHTS OF CHAIRMAN CAMEO   32

From a 13-man corporation in the 70s to a limited company of

three in ‘88, Cameo have learned to survive market fluctuations

WILD CHERRY   44

We salute Neneh Cherry's “Buffalo Stance” — single of the year?

FASHION: FLOWERS OF ROMANCE   48

Lovesexy-style by Dan Burn Forti and Tanya Gill

LIFE OF RILEY   55

Street fusion from wunderkind producer Teddy Riley

LOVE & COMIX   58

US comic stars Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez’ everyday stories

of West Coast lesbians and Mexican-American street gangs

CLUBS: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY    62

Are custard pies the new clubbing accessories? Will NY nightlife

close? Why are DMs dangerous in the Hacienda Wednesdays?

ACTORS: THE LOWER CAST   72

For many a drama college star, the closest they'll get to Hamlet

in the real world is an audition for a cigar commercial. So you

wanna be an actor?

ROMI & JAZZ   80

Breaking out from the confines of bhangra, Britain's young

Asians are preparing to go pop

CAVE COMES CLEAN   86

Just how far do you have to go now to be a romantic hero?

Learning at last to love himself, Nick Cave discusses the

rock'n'roll lifestyle with Nick Kent

FRONTIER ART   90

Real artists don’t go west, but there are some still crossing new

frontiers in LA, determined fo stick it where the sun shines

CAPTAIN EMO   100

Imagine a cross between Pee Wee Herman and Crispin Glover,

and you have one of America’s funniest men: Emo Phillips

RUPERT THOMPSON   103

Dreams Of Leaving: the London novel that's soon to be a film

EASTWOOD'S BIRD   110

The Charlie Parker story on celluloid should earn director

Clint Eastwood an Oscar and Parker himself new converts

FASHION: CURVES AIRED   116

Photographed by Kevin Davies, fashioned by Lee Donaldson

CATCH 28   124

Gay artist Phillip Core: sex and sensibility

PLUS

Vanessa Williams, from dethroned beauty queen to

soul siren 38 / Moebius, the godfather of comic art 39 /

House surveyed with Baby Ford 43 / English eccentricity

from The Frazier Chorus 126 / !llustration at the RCA

126 / The new video brats 127 / Roofworld, a new

angle on the London novel 128

The Face was a very popular British music, fashion and culture magazine that was launched in May 1980 by Nick Logan who had also previously created the teenage pop magazine Smash Hits, and had been an editor at the New Musical Express (NME) in the 1970s. Some people associated with The Face over the years were designer and typographer Neville Brody (Art Director, 198186), creative director Lee Swillingham (Art Director 1993-1999), Craig Tilford (Art Directior 1999-2002), Graham Rounthwaite (Art Director 2002-2003), Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, photographers Juergen Teller, David Sims and writers including Jon Savage, Fiona Russell Powell and James Truman and others.